Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital History – University of Luxembourg

The Assistant Professor/Professor will be expected to undertake research focused on Digital History from different perspectives notably to act as an intermediary between new technologies and humanities and / or by analysing of the uses made of new digital tools for history (archives, narratives…). He/she should also help to identify and promote good practices in […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Digital Humanities Start-up Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims to encourage the development of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities. Proposals should be […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge

PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge http://www.fhi.duke.edu/labs/phd 2012 – 2013 The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a new PhD Laboratory in Digital Knowledge, to be co-directed by David Bell and Cathy Davidson beginning Fall 2012. The future of research and teaching in the Humanities – and across the spheres of the university – is […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities (for 4 years)

To strengthen its Priority Area Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities (University of Amsterdam) invites applications for an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities. The candidate will bring a relevant and innovative research agenda in Digital Humanities and will be especially interested the development and application of digital methods in the humanities. Digital research corpora of […]

News, Resources

Resource: Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Modern Proposal

Last month, I gave a presentation about paid crowdsourcing in the humanities at SDH-SEMI. Below are my notes. I The rhetorical model in the humanities is appreciation: we believe that by paying attention to an object of interest, we can explore it, find new dimensions within it, notice things about it that have never been […]

News, Reports

Report: One Culture. Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge

Abstract — Council on Library and Information Resources. by Christa Williford and Charles Henry Research Design by Amy Friedlander ISBN 978-1-932326-40-6 This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Call for Papers: Special issue of Philosophy & Technology

game_philosophy@unimore: Call for Papers: Special issue of Philosophy & Technology’. CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY’S SPECIAL ISSUE ON PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES GUEST EDITORS Patrick Coppock, Olli Leino, Anita Leirfall Following the Sixth International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games in Madrid, Spain from 29th to 31st January 2012 (http://2012.gamephilosophy.org/), organized by […]